I hope other journalists with powerful personal stories to tell don’t let our reticence about first-person journalism keep them from telling the stories. And when they tell them, I hope our editors have the good sense to publish them. What are some other outstanding examples of first-person journalism? I’d be happy to share some links here.

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I don’t have a reluctance to share personal stories, but I have had editors who hated the idea. Here’s a piece I did for Patch and it’s no coincidence that it was one of the last articles I did for them:

I think the attraction of the blog is that it’s not only OK to write in the first person; your readers kind of expect it. Still, for a graduate of the Old School, it always feels self-indulgent. Wonderfully so.